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About this page
This page lists counsellors and therapists with specialist knowledge of trauma related to birth. They have paid to advertise their services. While every effort has been taken to verify the counsellors on these pages, any contact with the people listed is made at your own risk.
How to advertise
If you’d like a listing on our website, you must be accredited with the BACP or a similar professional organisation.
Please email details of your accreditation and the text for your advert (maximum 200 words). To pay, please set up a monthly standing order with your bank of £3 a month, from the 1st of the month. (Most banks now allow you to do this from their website or banking app). Just let us know when you’ve set it up.
If your bank doesn’t allow you to set up a standing order online, please print out the standing order film below, fill it in for £9.00 per quarter, out, scan it in and email it to us.
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Dr Claire Wilson
I am a chartered clinical psychologist with extensive experience in working with trauma-related difficulties having worked in a specialist NHS trauma service since 2009 and in private practice since 2012.
Natasha Williams
I am a qualified and experienced cognitive behavioural psychotherapist with a post graduate certificate, Diploma and Msc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I am also a qualified Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner.
Sarah Weir
We have a team of counsellors who specialise in supporting mothers and their partners with a wide range of issues, including birth trauma and also postnatal depression. Other issues we work with include anxiety, parenting difficulties and relationship difficulties. Parents with children of all ages can refer themselves to the service.
Dr Natasha Wallace
I provide a safe space for mothers, fathers and birthing people who feel they would like to explore their birth experience further, or feel they need some support with their psychological wellbeing in early parenthood.
Gillian Taylor Counsellor and Psychotherapist
I work in a person-centred way which allows you to work at your own pace but will use relaxation and visualisation techniques to regulate emotions helping prevent you from becoming traumatised all over again. You will gain a deeper understanding of your experiences allowing you to process them and move forward with your life.
Gayle Sturrock
I work with complex cases with integrative psychotherapy regarding trauma, CPTSD, PTSD, attachment issues, postnatal depression, anxiety, depression, OCD, relationship issues and family issues. Please call for advice and information.
Lesley Strabel
I am a counsellor working in private practice in Cardiff, Wales. I have experience of working with birth, pregnancy and child loss, birth trauma, bystander trauma, and male and female PND. My experience has been gained through the fields of mental health and birthing support.
Jo Spilling
My ethos is to respond to individual needs, anxieties and distress, providing a safe space in which to work through concerns. It is my hope that through working together, counselling can help bring you relief from emotional distress, improve your relationships and help you to make constructive changes.
Shortland Psychology
Shortland Psychology provide personalised support for adults, children and families who are impacted by trauma. Having a traumatic experience of any kind can be life changing and affects how we feel, think and behave. The effects of trauma are complex and can present as severe withdrawal, extreme anxiety, to having times of not feeling real, or any combination of these.
Mia S. Scotland
I am a mother of three boys, a clinical psychologist, and a birth doula – my experience as a doula gives me a unique understanding of what actually happens in the birthing room. I have been treating trauma successfully for over 25 years and have specialised in perinatal mental health for the past 15 years.
Suzi Robinson
I am an experienced, qualified counsellor working out of my private practise in Arlesey, Bedfordshire. I am also a high-risk midwife with over 13 years’ experience based at a busy London hospital.
Julia Reissmann
I am a BACP registered counsellor working part-time as a perinatal counsellor in the NHS as well as seeing people privately. I see clients individually, as couples and sometimes run groups and training.
Heather Rai
The key to my approach is to create a genuine and understanding relationship with you that’s as free of judgement as possible and then to support you to find your own answers to your distress at your own pace.
Dr Katherine Preedy
Every person is different so I work integrating models drawing from CBT, EMDR, Schema Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy as well as others depending on the needs and preferences of the person coming to see me.
Samantha Phillis
As a midwife I have a unique insight into the trauma which can occur during the perinatal period and am passionate about using this insight to support individuals, couples and families effected by birth trauma, perinatal mental health issues, feeding issues and all areas of birth trauma.
Lesley Pavincich
I am a qualified social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience working in the field of mental health, in both the private and public sectors, with people presenting with a wide range of problems.
Mothership Counselling Services/Keeley Craw
My aim is to support women through person-centred and psychodynamic counselling approaches to gain a better understanding of their experience so they can gain clarity and control and become the woman they wish to be.
George Maxwell
I am an Accredited CBT Therapist with over 10 years of experience in supporting people with mental health problems. My specialism is in working with new fathers who have found the transition to parenthood particularly challenging.
Emma Mathews
I am a BABCP, COSRT and EMDR Europe accredited psychotherapist and have extensive experience working within the NHS as a psychosexual therapist and a specialist midwife within perinatal mental health services. I also worked for Relate as a psychosexual and relationship therapist for several years.
Laura Bethel
As a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and member of EMDR Association UK & Ireland, I am experienced in delivering evidence based psychological therapy to address a wide range of difficulties with anxiety and depression.